Bea Sanders/AICPA Innovation in Teaching Award for the first
sequence of accounting: Kay Poston, professor of accounting
at Francis Marion University in Florence, S.C., and John Waters,
assistant professor of accounting at the University of Indianapolis,
for “A FASB Accounting Standards Codification Project for Introductory
Financial Accounting,” which introduces the codification to both
majors and nonmajors in the first accounting course.

George Krull/Grant Thornton Teaching Innovation Award for
junior- and senior-level accounting courses: Marsha Huber,
associate professor of accounting at Youngstown State University,
Ohio, for “Out of the Box Learning for Tax Class: Students Create
Models, Pamphlets, and a Shoebox Case,” an action-based learning
approach in which students exercise creativity, analysis, and
evaluation skills as they work on assignments

The winning curricula will become part of the AICPA’s Accounting
Professors’ Curriculum Resource, a tool designed to encourage faculty
and engage accounting students while learning about the profession.
The tool is available to AICPA members at tinyurl.com/9j9q9s9.